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The U-boats nearly succeeded in defeating Great Britain, but attacks on American merchant ships played an important role in the United States entering t war. Alarmed at the prospect of an American entry into the war, Germany eventually pledged to protect the safety of passengers before sinking unarmed ships.ĥ Objects Used in British Royal Ceremonies and Their SymbolismĪfter announcing the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against Allied and neutral ships on January 31, 1917, U-boats sank more than 500 vessels by the end of April. On May 7, 1915, U-20 torpedoed the liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland and killed nearly 1,200 passengers, including 128 Americans. U-boats attacked not only food and oil supplies bound for the British Isles, but passenger ships as well. The idea that submarines would attack merchant ships had been dismissed by many Britons, including First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill who wrote, “I do not believe this would ever be done by a civilized power.” In February 1915, Germany announced the start of unrestricted submarine warfare in which all vessels, even merchant ships from neutral countries, would be sunk without warning in a war zone around Great Britain.
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Despite these strikes, the Germans lost more U-boats than they sank during the first month of the war. Seventeen days later, U-9 sank three British battle cruisers with an hour, killing nearly 1,500. The U-boat fleet made its first strike on September 5, 1914, with an attack on a British light cruiser off the coast of Scotland that killed more than 250 sailors. Back row (left to right): U-14, U-10 and U-12. Front row (left to right): U-22, U-20 (sank the Lusitania), U-19 and U-21. Images from the museum's scanning equipment, which located the wreck, show the German sub partially embedded in the seafloor, nose-first at about a 45 degree angle.German submarines parked in harbor, circa 1914. A graphic representation from the Sea War Museum Jutland in Denmark shows the wreckage of a Nazi German U-boat, which the museum says it found embedded in the seafloor north of Denmark. The fact that the wreck wasn't found 70 years ago left room for the speculation about a successful clandestine voyage to Argentina. The museum has not raised the wreckage from the seafloor, and it's final resting position - only nine miles from where the British navy reported sinking the sub as it tried to make a suspected escape. Trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina."The Type XXI was the first genuine submarine that could sail submerged for a prolonged time, and the U-3523 had a range that would have allowed it to sail non-stop all the way to South America." "After the war, there were many rumors about top Nazis who fled in U-boats and brought Nazi gold to safety, and the U-3523 fed the rumors," the museum said in a statement published on its website. For years there has been speculation that the sub, which was one of Nazi Germany's most advanced U-boats at the time, made it to South America carrying fleeing Nazi officers - possibly even Adolf Hitler himself, according to some conspiracy theorists. The submarine was sunk on May 6, 1945, the day after Nazi forces surrendered in Denmark, parts of Germany and the Netherlands in World War II, according to the museum. The Sea War Museum Jutland, in northern Denmark, says researchers found the German U-boat U-3523 on the seafloor just north of the country earlier this month. A museum in Denmark says it has solved the seven-decade mystery of a missing Nazi submarine.
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